• Am J Manag Care · Jul 2019

    Estimated costs to the Pennsylvania criminal justice system resulting from the opioid crisis.

    • Gary Zajac, Samaan Aveh Nur, Derek A Kreager, and Glenn Sterner.
    • The Pennsylvania State University. Email: gxz3@psu.edu.
    • Am J Manag Care. 2019 Jul 1; 25 (13 Suppl): S250-S255.

    AbstractThe opioid crisis has made financial impacts across all levels of the public sector. This report focuses on costs related to the criminal justice system (CJS) in Pennsylvania. Costs impacting 3 principal areas of the CJS are examined: opioid-related arrests, court costs, and incarceration. Analysis of the state-level CJS is our main focus; no local-level costs are included. Through this examination, costs of the opioid crisis for the period of 2007 to 2016 were estimated using opioid costs for 2006 as a baseline. Total costs to the Pennsylvania CJS during this period were over $526 million, with most of that accounted for by state corrections. Opioid-related trends in arrests, court proceedings, and incarceration were not sufficiently well documented to allow for rigorous analysis in earlier periods, and this was the primary limitation to our analysis.

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